264 pages : 21 cm

"First published in hardcover in the United States of America in 1993"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-252) and index

Family, sex, and power : the rhythms of medieval queenship / John Carmi Parsons -- Roles and functions of queens in Arpádian and Angevin Hungary (1000-1386 A.D.) / János M. Bak -- Queenship in medieval Denmark / Inge Skovgaard-Peterson (with Nanna Damsholt) -- Women at the court of Charlemagne : a case of monstrous regiment? / Janet L. Nelson -- Mothers, daughters, and power : some Plantagenet evidence, 1150-1500 / John Carmi Parsons -- Queens dowager and queens regent in tenth-century Léon and Navarre / Roger Collins -- Capetian women and the regency / André Poulet -- The king's mother and royal prerogative in early sixteenth-century France / Elizabeth McCartney -- The portrayal of royal women in England, mid-tenth to mid-twelfth centuries / Pauline Stafford -- Reigning queens in medieval Europe : when, where, and why / Armin Wolf -- Female succession and the language of power in the writings of twelfth-century churchmen / Lois L. Huneycutt

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